Cyberspace is not a place you go to but rather a layer tightly integrated into the world around us

Brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want something badly enough. They are there to keep out the other people.

Girls. You never know what they’re going to think.

[..] she was terrific to hold hands with. Most girls, if you hold hands with them, their goddam hand dies on you, or else they think they have to keep moving their hands all the time, as if they were afraid they’d bore you or something. Jane was different. We’d get into a goddam movie or something, and right away we’d start holding hands, and we won’t quite till the movie was over. And without changing the position or making a deal out of it. You never even worried, with Jane, whether your hand was sweaty or not. All you knew was, you were happy. You really were.

It takes a lot of work to have an image like that. It’s not something I would aspire to and its not my idea of music making. But it’s something else. You just can’t sit on your butt and make Lady Gaga happen. That’s more energy than I got, for sure.